that's awesome. it's so great when people break through like that. what a sweet story!

Yay! That makes me so happy! Hooping is a great thing to have in common. Next you two will be doing partner moves! At The Hoop Convergence, the Boston Hoop Troupe did a whole workshop on partner hooping. You would not believe all the moves two people can do together. Maybe you can get him to come with you to the Convergence next year!

I just love a happy romantic love story! Thank you for sharing that!

omg what an awesome story...I just love picturing the whole thing! It sounds like you guys really bonded too...that is wonderful.

my boyfriend is so supportive of my hooping but until recently really had no interest in doing it. Every time I would try to teach him he would get super embarrassed and just not want to do it. He is not a good dancer or anything and I was a dancer growing up so he is insecure about it...but he finally admitted that he really wanted a hoop (none of mine are big enough for him to really learn) so that he could learn the basics on his own and then I could show him more. I told him I wanted to teach him the basics because it would be so much easier (plus it's good practice for my upcoming teacher's training), but he just wasn't having it...he said he just needed to do it on his own for now...I at first was all hurt, but quickly got over that since I am so excited he has any interest in it at all...i mean this is a business-like guy who is super quiet and reserved and really has not much natural rhythm (we are totally like Dharma and Greg by the way)...so the fact that he wanted his own hoop and stuff...I was all for it.

so i just made him one last week and although he hasn't had any time to use it yet, I know he is excited. I don't think he would ever get anywhere near what your boyfriend busted out this weekend, but it is inspiring to hear...maybe my guy will find another side of him in the hoop! But even if he doesn't, it feels nice for him to want to experience something that he knows has changed my life so much and made me a happier person!

Yay for awesome boyfriends! This reminded me how grateful I am for mine...thanks!

Wonton, that's AWESOME! Now he understands why you love hooping!

I have a similar but definitely more low key story with my boyfriend. When I started hooping, he had absolutely no interest in it at all. i asked him if he wanted to try and he did what I see a lot of people do: he wound the hoop up, gave it a big push, didn't move a muscle, and let the hoop fall to the ground, concluding with, "See? I can't hoop." I started explaining that the hoop doesn't magically levitate around your body and that you do have to stay in motion, but he didn't want to scrape any of the tape off my brand new hoop by trying again. He handed my hoop back to me, and that was the end of that.

He was always very supportive of my hooping though. He has encouraged me from the very beginning, even when we couldn't really afford it, because he saw how happy it made me. Sometimes when the weather was nice outside, he would send me text messages saying, "It's supposed to be nice tonight, so you should hoop at the park after work." Sometimes he came to the park with me on the weekends to hang out while I hooped.

Then one day, out of the clear blue, he decided he wanted to give it a try. This was over a year after I started hooping and he had shown NO interest whatsoever in hooping until then. We made a special hoop just for him in the colors that he wanted, and we taped it up together (I did the pain in the ass 2" gaffer tape and he did the easier to handle accent tape). After that, we started hooping together at the park once a week. He had no interest in learning crazy tricks. He just wanted to work on the basics. Of course, he can knee hoop no problem. When I told him how hard it is to knee hoop, he told me he was a hooping prodigy and that he would be joining the All Stars in two weeks. We had to take a break when the weather got cold, and we've been too busy to make it to the park this summer, but just knowing that he wants to do it was enough of a surprise for me!

I love hooping with my boyfriend. It is so much fun to share that with someone... especially when you're practicing and messing up together, it makes it so much easier to laugh at yourself when your honeybun is right there with you. Jeremiah and I enjoy "facehooping" together (when you mess up a duckout and the hoop rolls across your face).

my guy likes to hoop too... guys usually pick it up faster than girls. my man says its the "thrusting motion." hahaha.

The first hoop I bought was a hoopnotica hoop. I somehow found their page during a random web crawl, and their video had me instantly wanting to try it. I bought a hoop for myself and one for my Mom, since her birthday was coming up. When I told my boyfriend, he said the most surprising thing I think has ever come out of his mouth... "You didn't get me one?"

When the two hoops came, we popped the DVD in and gave it a try, and we've been doing it together ever since. Some things I'm better at, somethings he's better at, and it's been really interesting and surprising to see which is which. I totally agree with everyone here, who has said it's so much fun to have someone to learn with. And also that guys, once they try it, seem to get hooked really easily. :-)

I so hate that we didn't start hooping until right after the hoop convergence. I would have loved to see the partner hooping stuff. I don't think I've ever even seen a good partner hooping video. Anybody know of any up at youtube?

Doug says he wants to try to do corkscrews and when the hoop twirls up above his head, he wants me to roll into him and treansfer the hoop to where it twirls back down around me into corkscrews. I thought it was a cool idea. Can it be done?